NAME

       patchedit - Edit headers of a patch according to DEP3

SYNOPSIS

       patchedit [command] patchfile

DESCRIPTION

       patchedit is a helper script for managing patch headers according to
       <http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/>.

COMMANDS

       edit (default)
           Opens patchfile in EDITOR (or VISUAL or sensible-editor) and

           •   checks all headers

           •   marks problems

           •   adds missing required headers with proposals for their values

           If no command is given, edit is chosen automatically.

       check
           Does a non-interactive check if the headers conform to DEP3. Prints the results
           (missing required headers, wrong values, ...) to stdout.

ARGUMENTS

       patchfile (required)
           The patch to work on. Either a full path or the name of the file in ./debian/patches.

OPTIONS

       -f|--fix
           Tries to fix problems in the headers when editing/checking patches.

       -o|--optional
           Also add/print missing optional headers.

       -h|--help
           Help output.

ENVIRONMENT

       patchedit respects DEBEMAIL (or EMAIL) and DEBFULLNAME (for new Author or Reviewed-by
       headers).

NOTE

       This script is not pkg-perl specific. It should go into devscripts eventually.

TODO

        * preserve the extra fields
        * preserve the order of the fields

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2010, Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.